MSD Vaccine Healthcare Manager 

Slovakia, Region of Bratislava, Bratislava 

932505048

Job Description

This role requireswho understands the healthcare environment, resp. vaccination processes, key health care stakeholders and decision makers with a) to improve vaccination journey.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop & Execute strategies to improve vaccination journeys on national and regional level
• Self-responsible for engagement of key HC stakeholders & accounts (MoH, Ministry of Education, Municipalities, Regional Public Health Offices, Hospitals, Medical Societies, National Health Information Center, payers, big employers, etc.) involved in the vaccination journey and collaborate with them and internal stakeholders to develop and implement solutions
• Understand vaccination processes, key stakeholders, and decision-makers
• Identify potential vaccination journey gaps and link them to the company's strategic priorities and solutions
• Optimize the vaccination journey mapping by developing solutions that are simple, effective and with high impact
• Sets up partnership contracts with health institutions by following good business practices and internal contracting procedures
• Preparing executional plan
• Pilot regional initiatives to test new approach before national roll-out
• Communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of solutions. Accompanies the accounts in the implementation of the action plan
• Continuously monitor and evaluate the success of implemented solutions
• Analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement in vaccination and impact of solutions implemented
• Works closely with the cross-functional team (Marketing, Medical, Policy, Market Access, KAS) and recommends to CFT on a possible approach to respond to these potential vaccination journey gaps: methodology, tool, solution, or support offer with the aim of optimizing the Consumers and Healthcare Professional Experience and guaranteeing the quality, safety and efficiency of the journey and care.
• Collaborate with Pharmacy Chamber and other stakeholders to enable HPV and pneumococcal vaccination in pharmacies
• Explore opportunities to enable vaccination in schools
• Explore best practices in Europe and around the world on different pathway of vaccination (e.g. vaccination centers, collaboration with municipalities or regional health offices, pharmacy program, school program, etc.)
• Contributes to the improvement of the solutions by sharing experiences and the main lessons learned from the projects carried out with local/regional functions and across the region.

Education:

• Required: Master’s degree in business/economics, biosciences or equivalent

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry including marketing, policy, project management, hospital account management or healthcare consultancy (e.g. experience from MoH, Public Health Office or Supranational organizations/project is a benefit). Expertise in project management, particularly around patient journeys is preferred
• Understanding of the healthcare environment and knowledge of vaccination processes and decision making (upper level of expertise)
• Proven analytical, problem-solving and negotiations skills
• Ability to identify customer needs and develop solutions that are simple and effective
• Ability to translate strategy into action plans and drive successful execution in collaboration with external key stakeholders
• Strong project management skills and track record of leading projects to successful and timely completion
• Leadership skills and ability to collaborate across the organization and with various stakeholders. Ability to influence others, achieving results without direct line authority.
• Strong ability to negotiate individually and in groups
• Strong capacity for conviction / impact internally and externally
• Strong ability to collaborate with a cross-functional team and prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Capability to energize and motivate a team to follow his/her direction (e.g. ability to ensure a cohesive, collaborative, high performance work team)
• Exploration and development of innovative solutions
• Fluent in Slovak and English
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience in area of prevention and/or vaccination
• Understanding of the vaccination journey mapping
• Successful experience in collaboration with MoH, Ministry of education, Public Health Office, or municipalities)
• Digital savviness and ambition to support development and implementation of digital solutions designed to drive customers and patient’s activation and engagement
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance rules
• Customer segmentation and targeting
• Comfortable communicating in public

Key Personal Characteristics:

• Express a sharing and growth mindset, and take personal ownership and accountability
• Make things happen and take satisfaction in achieving superb results
• Demonstrate curiosity and be open to feedback & learning
• Self-confident personality with high level of integrity and trust-full values
• Speak up and make sure others are heard, navigate through cultural differences and adjust communication style and detail to audience
• Conduct scenario planning, spot relevant patterns and issues, and assess alternative solutions to inform better decisions
• Experience to work with cross functional teams
• Multitask experience
• Comfort managing across solid and dotted reporting lines; and influencing via meta-leadership rooted in individual’s confidence, content, knowledge, and brand experience.

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